Joaquin

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Joaquín in CR Costa Rica, FR France, SV El Salvador.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Joaquin is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name237K records spelled Joaquin9 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Venezuela, Brazil, Ecuador

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Joaquín, Joaquìn

• a separate given name24K records spelled Joaquin4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Ecuador, Spain, United Kingdom

  Also written Joaquín, Joaquîn, Joaquìn

• Lao given name9.2K records spelled Joaquin24 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Laos, United States, Thailand, Spain

  Languages: Lao, Thai

  Also written Joaquín, Joaquìn, วากัน, วากีนี, J'Oaquin

67 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Joaquin is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• Biblical. See }Joachim in main dictionary.

  as a name·A concise dictionary of first names

• Smyrna, Tucuman, Buenos Aires; Deus raises

  as a name·Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

• Spanish form of JOACHIM .

  as a word

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

EC INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) — 125 years between 1900–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Jeconiahb. 616ILnot in their usual namenineteenth King of Judah
• José Joaquín Pérezb. 1801CLChilean politician and President (1801-1889)
• Joaquín Sorollab. 1863ESSpanish painter (1863–1923)
• Enrique Granadosb. 1867ESnot in their usual nameSpanish pianist and composer (1867–1916)
• Quinob. 1932ARnot in their usual nameArgentine cartoonist (1932-2020)
• Joaquín Caparrósb. 1955ESSpanish association football manager
• El Chapob. 1957MXnot in their usual nameMexican drug lord (born 1957)
• Joaquin Phoenixb. 1974USAmerican actor
• Jorge Garbajosab. 1977ESnot in their usual nameSpanish basketball player (born 1977)
• Joaquínb. 1981ESSpanish footballer

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 863 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Joaquin?

We estimate roughly 172 thousand people bear Joaquin (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.

In which country does Joaquin have the most bearers?

Joaquin is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled joaquin.

How common is Joaquin compared with other names?

In Argentina, Joaquin is the 112th most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.

Is Joaquin a male or female name?

Joaquin is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Joaquin mean?

Recorded meaning: from the personal name, Spanish equivalent of Joachim.